THE LIMN

Art, Architecture, Words: A Repository

by Architectural Graduate Sophie Hamer.

  • JOURNAL
    • EVERYTHING
    • FACES
    • THINGS
    • SPACES
    • WORDS
    • PLACES
    • ARCHIVE
  • MOODS
  • SOPHIE HAMER
  • January 2019
    • Jan 21, 2019 TRANSIENCE
  • November 2018
    • Nov 9, 2018 How we come back
  • July 2018
    • Jul 11, 2018 IMPRESSIONS
  • May 2018
    • May 18, 2018 Penumbral Reflections
    • May 17, 2018 BARRAGAN
  • December 2015
    • Dec 1, 2015 STUDIO | DONALD JUDD
  • November 2015
    • Nov 21, 2015 CHARLOTTE PERRIAND
    • Nov 18, 2015 IT ISN'T THE SUN
  • October 2015
    • Oct 29, 2015 IT TREMBLES TO CARESS THE LIGHT
  • August 2015
    • Aug 25, 2015 HOTERE, MANHIRE AND MCQUEEN - CONVERSATIONS IN SPACE
    • Aug 15, 2015 FRANK STELLA
    • Aug 10, 2015 LOST LOVES
    • Aug 8, 2015 FREDERIK VERCRUYSSE
  • July 2015
    • Jul 8, 2015 FAYLAND HOUSE
    • Jul 7, 2015 DEMOLITION
    • Jul 3, 2015 LA FABRICA
  • June 2015
    • Jun 8, 2015 AFTER FOG, ARCHITECTURE
  • April 2015
    • Apr 29, 2015 COS x Snarkitecture
    • Apr 20, 2015 IN THE LANDSCAPE
    • Apr 14, 2015 SECTION HOUSE
    • Apr 13, 2015 SPLASHING
    • Apr 13, 2015 POSSIBILITY ON THE URBAN EDGE
  • February 2015
    • Feb 23, 2015 POSTCARDS OF AMBIGUITY
    • Feb 20, 2015 COA MUSEUM
    • Feb 13, 2015 PALAZZO DELLA CIVILITA DEL LAVORO
    • Feb 11, 2015 ESCAPISM
    • Feb 11, 2015 GUILD
    • Feb 10, 2015 CATHERDRA
    • Feb 4, 2015 DESCENT INTO LIMBO
  • December 2014
    • Dec 26, 2014 I NEED THE SEA
  • November 2014
    • Nov 22, 2014 CELLO IN THE CHARRED CHAPEL
    • Nov 17, 2014 MEMORY TRAPS
  • October 2014
    • Oct 8, 2014 THE APARTMENT
  • September 2014
    • Sep 18, 2014 PRINCESS OF WALES CONSERVATORY
    • Sep 9, 2014 MARGARET DRABBLE
  • January 2014
    • Jan 21, 2014 TREADMILL
    • Jan 7, 2014 13 WAYS
    • Jan 6, 2014 MORNING RITUAL
  • November 2013
    • Nov 26, 2013 FRUIT & FLOWERS HUNG THICK FALLING
    • Nov 13, 2013 INVADED
    • Nov 10, 2013 L'AMANT - THINKING ABOUT DURAS
    • Nov 10, 2013 AT THE FISHHOUSES
    • Nov 10, 2013 VIOLA
    • Nov 6, 2013 JUNYA ISHIGAMI
  • October 2013
    • Oct 14, 2013 MAPPED
  • March 2013
    • Mar 16, 2013 H&dM
  • February 2013
    • Feb 16, 2013 CUT OUT
    • Feb 16, 2013 THE DANCE
    • Feb 16, 2013 MESOPOTAMIA
    • Feb 16, 2013 ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE
  • December 2012
    • Dec 1, 2012 BLACKSMITH
  • July 2012
    • Jul 7, 2012 FLOAT
    • Jul 7, 2012 NA HOUSE
    • Jul 7, 2012 THE CRAFTSMAN
  • June 2012
    • Jun 29, 2012 PROJECTED PASTS
    • Jun 15, 2012 OUTWITH
  • May 2012
    • May 23, 2012 HANDS ON
  • March 2012
    • Mar 9, 2012 ON HOUSE / HOME
  • February 2012
    • Feb 20, 2012 PRINTS
  • November 2011
    • Nov 9, 2011 TWO DIALOGUES
    • Nov 3, 2011 TOMAS
  • October 2011
    • Oct 17, 2011 PAUL HIMMEL
    • Oct 6, 2011 MUURATSALO
    • Oct 5, 2011 MAN CARRYING THING
    • Oct 2, 2011 AMBIGUITY & CONTRADICTION
  • September 2011
    • Sep 23, 2011 IT ISN'T THE SUN
    • Sep 23, 2011 TEXTILE FIELD
    • Sep 18, 2011 WALKING WITH SENNETT
    • Sep 10, 2011 HOCKNEY
    • Sep 9, 2011 MATERIAL DEFORMATIONS
  • August 2011
    • Aug 16, 2011 TEOTIHUACAN
    • Aug 14, 2011 DO PERSPECTIVES PULSE?
    • Aug 14, 2011 SPLASHING
    • Aug 4, 2011 THE SEA WALL
    • Aug 3, 2011 FIELDS
  • July 2011
    • Jul 30, 2011 NAKAO
  • May 2011
    • May 2, 2011 SOLITUDE IS AN EXACT GEOMETRY
  • April 2011
    • Apr 26, 2011 + WORLD, + SELVES, + SUN.
  • March 2011
    • Mar 31, 2011 A LA PINTURA
  • February 2011
    • Feb 16, 2011 SECTION HOUSE
    • Feb 16, 2011 ROLAND
    • Feb 14, 2011 OUT OF PLACE
    • Feb 11, 2011 WHEN INSECTS GROW UP
 
 
 
 
View fullsize Louvre-Lens.
July 2018.

The three years since I took the train from Paris to Lens to visit this incredible space have all but dissolved. Time does that, dissipating, passing through your fingers like sand, until suddenly you can count it by the spad
View fullsize Sailors Grave, Coromandel 
June 2021 

On the shortest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere, it was magic to receive photos of the sunshine completely filling this cedar-lined outdoor room.

The builder of this new home, a good friend of mine,
View fullsize Lac de Derborence
June 2021

It is a late start to the season this year, but summer is finally here, and the mountain passes (and dead end roads) are open for exploring. Lac de Derborence surprised me in all the best ways, including finding that perh
View fullsize Lac de Moiry 
October 2019.

Each evening when the shadows get long and the sunlight turns golden, I am surprised by how late the light stays. Spring has been all grey skies and raindrops this year - a far cry from last years month of May, when all I
View fullsize Kunsthaus Erweiterung
David Chipperfield Architects

A visit to an as-yet-unoccupied gallery
Zurich,  May 2021

Folded and fluted brass lines each threshold between rooms. In the empty building, with no things to see,  the focus is on the framing ele
View fullsize Baloise Park C, Valerio Olgiati. 
Basel, April 2021. 

A tour of the perimeter, in spring

The expressed edges of the floorplates reach out to become the facade, thin slices of concrete balancing on the array of pointed columns. There is something de
View fullsize Lac de Moiry, looking across to the Pointes de Mourti above the Moiry glacier beyond. 

We rode from Sierre, up the switchbacks of Val d’Anniviers and up the valley through Grimentz. It was mid-October and the colours were beginning to turn, re
View fullsize Overlooking one of the less familiar sides of Christ & Gantenbein’s Kunstmuseum Basel Neubau, where a tapered courtyard descends to the museum storage zones below. 

Basel, March 2020.
View fullsize Swiss National Museum by Christ & Gantenbein. 
Zürich, August 2019.
View fullsize Lago del Sambuco, October 2019. 

En route to Lago del Narèt at the top of the raw and immense Vallemaggia, a steep valley of stone grottos, waterfalls and mountain pastures that climbs up into the alps behind Locarno, Ticino.
 
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Jan 21, 2019
TRANSIENCE
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Nov 9, 2018
How we come back
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Jul 11, 2018
IMPRESSIONS
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May 18, 2018
Penumbral Reflections
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BARRAGAN
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Sophie Hamer 2015-2020